Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-07-15
OUR FALSE HAIR.
Where IL Comes from and How 1t Is
Obtained.

Obtained.
NEARLY all the false hair that is sold in
this country, said n hair dealer recently,
lis brought from France and Germany. 1t
is obtained in those countries from the
peasant girls. The Berlin and Paris mcr.
chants send their agents out through the
country districts, and, whenever one of
these agents meets n lass with a fine crop
of hair, lac Immediately begins to bargain
with her. AS rule the peasant knows so
little of the world, and are so utterly
ignorant of the value of things, that they
generally sell their hair at the most ride
ulously low prices 1t is nothing uncom
mon TO see u French peasant girl dispose
OF the most magnificent suit of hair,
suit that we could sell for SO, fora worth
less earring or a string of bright looking
beads. II these merchants meet n girl on
the road whose hair attracts them, they
never give the poor girl time to think or
opportunity 10 go home and consult her
parents, but the moment she says yes,
out comes their shears and of goes her
magnificent hair, and the poor chlld's only
return is a worthless trinket. 1t seems sad,
but such is life at least hair merchant
life. After the hair has been all collected
and brought into Paris or Berlin, it is then
put through a cleaning process and assOrt-
cd and arranged. On all hair rs it comes
from the head, there Is, no matter how
clean person tries TO keep her
or himself, more or less dandruif. The
hair is passed through sort of wire net
or chain. the wires of which are so close
together that the hairs themselves can
scarcely pass through You would think
this would cut the hair, but it does not.
1t only gets the dirt of, and it does SO
most eileCtually. After the hair is thus
thoroughly cleaned, il is assorted in proper
colors, qualities, and lengths. Then the
black hair Is again run over and three
more piles or heaps are made of 1.-THE
long black hairs, the medimm. and the
short. The light hair is similarly assorted,
Then the dealers mix the black and light
hairs together and make from them diilcr
cnt shades BymXing jet black, for in
stance, with color two shades lighter
than jet black you get a color exactly one
shade lighter, and this is the rule all
through the different combinations of hair
colors \ color mixed with another color
two shades lighter than itself will produce
a color one shade lighter, and shade that
appears TO bc perfectly natural II the
hair is mixed with color that is more
than two shades lighter it will produce Il
streaky combination, which is, of course
to be avoided; but when the mixing is
properly done not even an expert can tell
the difference between the real color and
the color that is the result of this skillful
The French are the most
expert hair mixers i'm The world, and many
a blonde or brown suit of hair that looks 81
perfectly natural Is in reality, the product
of two different heads, and all the result
of the ingenious French hair mixers
There is in hair, as in everything else, an
immense variety OF kinds, and conse
qucntly an immense variety of prices.
Heads of hair can bc bought a, low "a,
So, and there arc many that bring SO.
For this latter price should say that the
very best suit of hair that can be found in
Boston can be purchased. II does not cost
a woman, or should in order 10 keep in
the fashion. Mrs. Lady. rs much to pur
chase her hair now as Ii did three or -four
years ago The Mrs Ladies DO not wear
near 50 much hair now as they did then. as
anyone, even a Mr. Gentleman, can see by
at one of their heads Consc-
qucntiy, while il formerly cost a fashiona
bic female from 500 To- 500 10 perfectly
adorn her head, surprising, of course, that
She had no hair at all TO start with, the
same female can now buy the very best
head gear i'm Boston at from $50 to SO
l. there much false hair worm Oh, an
immense deal of it, indulge in nocxag
gcration when | say that there arc not tiyc
women in one hundred WHO do not wear
some false hair